Call for Applications: Resist Grant Program in the US

Deadline: 3-Mar-23

Resist is now offering grants to support projects that enable all people to participate in the movement for justice and liberation.

Type of Grants

• General Support Grants:
  • General Support Grants are available for up to $4,000 to support groups who are building movements for justice and liberation and resisting systemic oppression through grassroots/cultural organizing, art-making and resilience building.  General support grants are awarded by a panel of previously funded Resist grantees.  Groups are funded based on the strength of their overall application. Awards can be used to best meet your group’s needs. Groups can only be funded once per 12-month period. There is no limit to the number of times a grantee can receive funds. If a group has been fully funded twice in the past five years, they may apply for a multi-year grant.
• Accessibility Grants:
  • Resist will fund the additional costs of making projects or events more accessible to community members with specific accessibility needs. Accessibility grants are awarded up to $4,000.
  • Accessibility grants are awarded by a panel of previously funded Resist grantees. Groups are funded based on the strength of their overall application. Awards can be used to best meet your group’s needs. Groups can only be funded once per 12-month period. There is no limit to the number of times a grantee can receive funds. If a group has been fully funded twice in the past five years, they may apply for a multi-year grant.

Eligibility Criteria

• Groups that are aligned with Resist will fit most of the following criteria:
  • Their work is located within an ecology of social justice organizations. They are aware of how their work fits into a greater whole. Work reflects a clear understanding of purpose and function within movements for social change.
  • Have an intersectional / cross-issue analysis.
  • Work actively against white and Christian supremacy, capitalism, gender, and sexual oppression, and all forms of patriarchy.
  • Are led by those most affected by structural oppression.
• Eligible organizations must:
  • Have an organizational budget under 150k per year,
  • Be based in the US,
  • Be led by those most impacted by intersecting systems of oppression,
  • Be an organization with a 501(c)3 status as determined by the IRS,
  • Be a federally recognized American Indian tribal government or agency or be sponsored by one of the above”;

Resist funds groups that:

• Resist.
  • Groups that organize, base build, engage in direct action, and cultural organizing. Groups organize within communities for structural social and economic change. Groups develop tools for consciousness-raising, including popular education and radical pedagogy development.
• Re-imagine.
  • Groups that actively build new systems that provide alternatives to the ones Resist is fighting now. These groups live into transformative justice by creating community-based alternatives to dehumanizing or inaccessible institutions and systems. This work might look like: alternatives to policing, urban gardens, cooperative childcare, etc.
• Build Resilience.
  • Groups that are creating through arts and cultural work and all forms of creative resilience building. Groups that are healing through sacred resistance, sustainability, ritual, bodywork, and other embodied healing for communities engaged in the work of liberation.

Resist does not fund:

• Social service or research projects,
• Legal defense costs or lawsuit projects not directly connected to a progressive organizing campaign,
• Material aid campaigns,
• Individuals,
• Projects whose primary work is outside of the United States,
• Capital campaigns, capital projects, or endowments,
• Organizations with access to traditional sources of funding,
• Other foundations or grant-giving organizations,
• Organizations with annual budgets over $150,000

For more information, visit Resist.